skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This links to one particular startup's landing page. The main demo day page is at http://www.nreduce.com/d/.
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You can cite a URL.
Totally agree. When I say the 'heck of it' I mean it from the corporations perspective. As it is a huge cost with minimal initial payoff. But film buffs are a great niche market to build a social network off of, and would create a stickiness to the Netflix platform, so we wouldn't see another great leave from Netflix most likely. Ping was a failed idea from the beginning, because it was obvious to the end user that the only reason of its existence was to immediately boost profits. If Apple treated Ping like they do their packaging, with a strong focus on end user experience, Facebook would have been scared.
It's fake liquidity IMO, since HF traders are only willing to take a position inbetween someone selling at one price and someone buying a bit high. The trade was going to go through without them in the middle. They are just skimming some money from the buyer, who would otherwise have a lower price at the cost of delaying a trade for half a second.
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Mostly. Until it isn't. It only takes one really bad screw up to cause a boatload of damage.
No one is attacking anyone or even trolling. The joke is that someone would misunderstand the headline, thinking that it was implying that Rdio was Acquiring Microsoft. The prospect of someone thinking this is so preposterous that it is funny. At least to me...
I was wondering what the time window is for the "voters are saying" bar charts. Seemed too long and static... wish those charts were more dynamic.
Exciting quote emphasized in post: "we expect Tesla to become cash flow positive at the end of next month."
There are already triggers in place now to stop trading when it gets out of reasonable bounds not right? Say like a x% shift throws an alarm that halts orders until a human looks at the situation, etc. I like the ticking exchanges (like the FTSE does not right?) where it "ticks" on the microsecond or some such so some of the clever hacks (locating near the datacenter) are eliminated.

The real question at stake here is do we want to hold back real algorithmic innovation that we actually want? Of course we need to have alarms to head-off flash crashes, but we want a lot of great people working on getting information into the market as fast as possible right? I mean the end goal as I see it is the replace of most traders to algorithms that bring prices closer to market with better/faster information.
>they've done an app on no budget, limited time, and little sleep. Twice. They scaled it singlehandedly to 20m users.

This is not true. You do not need to have such credentials for a technical co-founder.

I think your entire response is full of regurgitated garbage designed to serve the valleys current paradigm: devs are worth money - ideas are free.

This has been argued ad nausea here - but the fact is that ideas are NOT worth nothing. VCs are in a position to PAY developers til the cows come home - finding an idea in a market that is sizable, people are passionate about their support and willing to pay for, and can scale etc etc etc is HARD.

This is where YC has found the sweet spot - they have a model to vet the dev skill + idea-ability of the team.

Your claim that you need to have a hacker + hustler that can singlehandledly scale to 20M users and raise funding whilst walking down market street is retarded.

I agree with your TL;DR - but not on the same level you claim it.

The real problem is that finding a technical co-founder is hard because typically the skills to be the technical side are SOLELY what support the technical person, whereas the skills that are required to be the idea/business guy are NOT the SOLE means of supporting the idea guy - so it is intrinsically easier to be in the idea position, FINANCIALLY - but it is NOT easy/free to come up with the next $X billion dollar idea.

so - I would rebut that it is important to focus on how quickly your idea can be a revenue positive business. If you have an idea - make sure you can convince a tech co-founder that your amazing idea can sustain the OP-EX as early as possible then you will have a better chance of attracting a tech co-founder.

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Anecdote: ahve a guy that I am working with who is really smart and is an idea guy with degrees in foreign language and international business. He worked with Mayor Newsom, the De Rothschilds and others...

His ideas typically revolve around disrupting institutions, non-profits and social behavior.

These are all great ideas that he is proposing but NONE of them have any clear way to 1) make money quickly 2) have any easy/cheap adoption path 3) not require significant upfront capital to even get to a pilot...

It is critical that you have an idea that is rock-solid in its ability to actually be "something people want to use" (and pay money for).

If you cant A) pay your tech co-founder then you damn well better be able to B) come up with an idea that is so enticing that people will pay for it out of the gate.
No. ACOM is acquiring our product and users as well as our team, and we'll continue invest in making ShoeBox and our website better and better.
> A PhD also makes it more difficult to find a job.

I am not sure if this is true or not. But what little I can draw upon, lacking a source for statistics, is only from a major school with a famous engineering and science department. So I am pretty sure what I have observed won't hold on a national level.

> I think that one of the main reasons why the status quo is so impenetrable is precisely because of the racial and cultural homogeneity of the country. I presume you are in Tokyo, where the culture is at least somewhat mitigated by the presence of foreign nationals and their foreign employees, but as I'm sure you know, things get pretty monotonic when you step out into the other major cities.

I whole-heartedly agree, I usually refer to the "acceptance" of foreigner behaviour as a double-edged sword. It allows us to violate the rules to make a point, but it also allows for the "natives" to dismiss our actions as those of someone much like a child.
It is cumulative. I think I agree with you, though. I'll think about how to do rolling for the next debate (Oct 11.)
Can you explain that situation? As I read it, it goes like this. Someone is willing to buy at $1.50, and someone is willing to sell at $1.60. If an investor comes along that wants to buy right now, he has to buy from the seller at $1.60. But say a HFT quickly throws out a sell order at $1.59, so the investor is now able to buy at $1.59 from the HFT. The investor saved $0.01, and the HFT made a trade he must have wanted. Where is the money being skimmed?
Probably browser dependent.
Edit: unless W3C mentioned something about it.
$1 a month? Not even close.
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Not sure where to even begin. Reading the author's articles leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Didn't they do this already, once upon a time? I know that in the pre-streaming disc only era, I used to have "friends" on Netflix and could send and read reviews of movies, and get recommendations based on what my friends had watched. I had a few real life friends added and a larger set from an online forum I used to be a regular on.

I honestly don't know if that even still exists, and netflix.com seems to be giving me errors tonight so I can't check. Now that TVs and game consoles can get there and I no longer have a disc plan at all, I rarely visit the site in a browser. The various set-top-box clients I've used don't expose that functionality at all, so it may be gone or relegated solely to the browser, which at this point feels like the backwater of the Netflix experience.
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If someone day-trades (constantly buys and sells) on a Bitcoin exchange, it would also increase volume without meaning that Bitcoin activity is increasing. In fact, there are plenty of day-traders on Bitcoin exchanges.

So, yes, I argue that Bitcoin transactions are a better indicator of its activity. Sure, someone could be moving coins between his wallets, but every other indicator also confirms that Bitcoin activity is increasing (nr. of merchants, Bitpay users, etc).
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Yeah good old times. I did exactly the same thing although not that long ago. It turned amazingly well (although yes no matter what you do the size will be higher than the original image) but the quality was identical. You can use a very small font with the ASCII square character which basically gives you pixel perfect images.
>The reason I say "can" is because many people are lucky and find their technical cofounder in college and that makes it pretty easy

This is the secret sauce that stanford has realized - and pretty much the rest of the valley VC market.

College students are (young "dumb" and full of [ambition])

The VC field uses the same model as the military.

While there are many exceptions - the bang-for-buck is clearly on the out-of-college founder group.

EDIT: when I say bang-for-buck - I mean cost-to-risk ratio

college students are far cheaper, require less overhead and
the potential return on them is far greater in large numbers.

Although there are many many areas where you need a certain amount of domain knowledge that comes from experience in your field which would be required to disrupt the sector you are focusing on... it would be great to see a 30+ year old only fund to address this...
I would disagree. We do not need innovation. We need stable functioning markets, which is a goal that is in direct conflict with innovative trading. The system, and the participants' confidence in that system is of far greater importance than the efficiency of the system, and infinitely more important than the opportunity for some smart computer guys to make a buck doing essentially nothing of value. "As fast as possible" should not be the goal. "As fast as necessary" should be, and we are well beyond that.
I am going on a ledge here, but I would say as with most societies I know, getting a science and/or engineering degree is a safer bet at a job. It also has the benefit that there is less of a chance of major retraining if you join a more "modern" company. As @hkmurakami pointed out, those with an engineering or science degree tend to have to apply for more companies and getting internships is according to my own experience much easier.

My apologies for not being able to differentiate clearly between social sciences, business and the humanities. I am just too deep into the whole science game at this point.
Use JavaScript code in your Dart apps
check http://www.nreduce.com not specifically for solo'ers but an evolving "online incubator." i got some good feedback from fellow startups when working on CloudPlay.
It is possible, but this creates a higher barrier. I know of users who will give up after the first attempt.
I wonder what the minimum viable wifi-jammer is here?

Have you considered any sort of pingdom style monitoring for that sort of thing?

(Obviously, it's a really unlikely scenario right now, but if they can keep it off the air long enough to open the door and introduce it to Mr Big Hammer, notifications may not be forthcoming :) )
It's simpler than you might think. Takes less than 20-30 lines of Python. Read the pixels in the image and for each pixel print some parts of the box-shadow CSS with the right numbers... done.
True. I don't know why they have moved backwards in user experience. The best way to find out about films is from user generated lists, not algorithms. The best way to experience a film is a rich discussion after about the artistic or political meanings. These types of interactions don't work on Facebook unless you want to be labeled by your co-workers as a French film loving weirdo. If you love Bladerunner, what other movies would you recommend? Netflix's algorithm is not great when it comes to recommendations, they just recommend camp. Bladerunner is anything but camp.

Edit: Would be great to have the social media element be integrated into the TV and console apps. I to love these apps, and would love to find and follow other similar users and friends on the Netflix network.
longtime /.r 2774,

thx @cmdrtaco for starting slashdot.

It really filled the gap on the web in Perl, Linux & FOSS, information and was the go-to place in startups I've worked in. Now for a few questions,

Q. /. for me was the start of 'social software' through commenting & friends (fondly remembering 'friends of foes' & freaks) - what lessons learned in moderating & story post moderation do you think HN could improve with?

Q. Is there any way to get a dump of old posts. I've got 'em back to '96 & wouldn't mind getting a copy.
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I think people underestimate what an agile and lean startup like Elon seems to be running can accomplish. He's a super intelligent guy with a growing positive trackrecord. The vehicle industry has been waiting for disruption for 20+ years, and the giants finally have lost control and whatever unnatural advantages they tried to maintain. Technology for electric vehicles will only continue to improve, and costs will go down. Luckily for economies very attached to oil they can shift to systems like free re-fueling once a vehicle is purchased; That's pretty incredible and something I never even thought about or imagined possible, though it makes sense and works once the puzzle pieces are all in front of you. P.S. Elon's my new Man Crush.
Volatility is reflected in value, which I suspect you care very much about.
To the firm who is responsible. If they are buying up securities at well below-market rates, the problem solves itself.
Ask HN: Why are VCs needed?
My father worked in a bank and one of the main tasks of commercial banking was to give loans to start businesses. The entrepreneur has full ownership of the company and loan was repaid at normal interest rate. Why dont tech companies use this method and why do they need VC funding instead. If the entrepreneur is confident of his revenue model why not get a bank loan and start his company
Does anyone know if this will be an arm capture again or if it will it get to dock directly this time?
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>However, the article ignores these real issues and suggests that liquidity itself is a bad thing (or something not worth having).

The author does not suggest that. Rather, he says that beyond a certain point, liquidity stops having any practical value.
Netflix did have a social network a few years ago. You could friend people and talk about movies, etc. When it disappeared, I saw people complaining about it but I assumed it was because Netflix was going to integrate Facebook or something.
One theory

http://www.albertmohler.com/2004/05/07/asias-surplus-sons-an...

Another theory, and I can't find the source, is that rather then start a war, China has been engaging in massive infrastructure and home building enterprises...perhaps in the hopes that girls will become more desirable as home ownership goes up.
Presumably because Kickstarter is not a store.
As a high-frequency trader, I can tell you right now that you are just completely incorrect. I'm staring at a screen right now where we take both sides on every order, not 'skimming some money' from people. It's obvious you have no idea what you're talking about.

I would apologize for harsh language, but I have low tolerance for people who freely speak lies of matters of which they know nothing.
So I'm not the only dude with an Elon Man Crush.

I'm off to go buy a ton more TSLA stock. And apply at an Elon company. Doesn't even matter which one.
Gravemind?
I was thinking about trying nReduce - although I think I'd prefer looser deadlines and a stronger community aspect.
I have used Monit for years for basic server monitoring. It's a very tiny daemon with a single, simple config file. Basically I can tell it "when disk space exceeds X, or RAM exceeds Y, or CPU exceeds Z, or process identified by pidfile foo.pid isn't running, or I can't ping something, email me". No monitoring servers, no network polling, no SNMP, no monthly fees. Sounds like five lines of Monit config would have saved these guys. See the config file docs at http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html .
I know I will sound like a fanboy but every morning before starting to work, I watch one vi hart video.

Starting the day with those fantastic videos is like kickstarting both my analytical mind and my creative mind or may be those videos just make me happy in a very geek sense and the day begins in a better mood.

Also, SPIRALS EVERYWHERE...
The answer to that question definitely depends on the application. The Cloudant data model allows for read, write, and admin roles to be assigned to both users in the cloudant.com domain as well as generated API keys. For data consumption (e.g. read-only), it's straightforward to map those roles onto the application. For data creation, it of course becomes trickier. Approaches range from generating an API key per user to generating a cloudant.com account per user. However, you've highlighted the key question that is at the heart of all two-tier application stacks, from 'couch apps' to meteor.js, firebase, etc.
And anyone relying on that firm. What happens if a major bank pulls a Knight and blinks out of existence? Can this happen? I don't know. The answer to that question should be an emphatic "no."
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HFT crashes do not benefit or hurt anyone, since they are rolled back.
Why dont tech companies use this method and why do they need VC funding instead.

Because they need more money than banks are willing to lend, their present circumstances do not imply collateral/predictable revenues/etc which would justify an underwriting decision to lend more, and their implied failure rates would make lending at commercially acceptable interest rates a prohibitively expensive proposition for the bank.

For example, take stock of two guys in their mid-twenties with $30k of their $40k combined net worth tied into a business. The business has proven revenues of $10k. They seek $2 million in capital to expand to their next milestone. No bank in its right mind will loan them $2 million -- they're literally incapable of making the interest payments on it, to say nothing of predictably paying it back. By comparison, a VC firm might assign a notional value to their business of $3 million (the bank would say "It's, literally, worthless: liquidation costs swamp accumulated value of capital."), put in $2 million and own 40% of the company, and see 10 similarly situated investments fail totally to sell this one company for $200 million 5 years from now.
Sometimes, yes. Frequently it's very difficult to explain to a client that the way you[1] interpret the words they[2] are using is rather different than what may be in their head.

That is, from the technical perspective it may be 'impossible' to achieve perfect DRM. But from another perspective, if the added cost of circumventing that DRM is large enough that most[3] people won't bother, it /may/ be a success. See: Steam.

In short, the language/terminology barrier between people in different fields results in a lot of client/developer miscommunication, frustration, and, frankly, poor results.

A rather complete discussion on this (w/r/t a client wanting 100% uptime): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3056414

[1] The technical party in the relationship

[2] The party paying someone you to handle the technical side

[3] Again, we run into a problem with precise definitions using 'most' - do we mean 99.9%? Do we mean enough that the cost of implementing the DRM is larger than the $ saved. Though the lost sales due to /having/ DRM is an entirely different discussion.
Well, Apple did play the American company vs. foreign company card during the trial. Apple feels that it can carry some weight with the jury.
You don't need HTML at all. Using pseudo elements and taking advantage of browser assumptions you can make HTML-free webpages:

http://css-tricks.com/using-css-without-html/
If you aren't making money from having the majority of your trades inbetween two trades you are necessarily losing money. But HFT is profitable for you, which is a contradiction.
Failsafes are triggered irregularly and are thus prone to bugs. It is also very rare to go back and review data with a separate implementation of the failsafe to see if the normal implementation is functioning incorrectly in certain circumstances, so errors in the failsafe algorithm can be difficult to detect until a major problem occurs.
Microsoft's "just the tip" mentality when it comes to anything other than Windows or Office really pisses me off. Hardware not withstanding (and the last generation was really good), the Zune service is great. The client software is excellent and the subscription service is a great value at 10 bucks a month.

But then there's the marketing aspect of it all. I think the interactions between the various MS Product Managers and the Marketing team goes something like this:

Marketing Guy: "Alright, what are you here to talk about?"

Product Manager: "<something not Windows or Office>"

Marketing Guy: "Fuck off."
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Goldman Sachs creates a derivative security matching the return of the underlying equity

So Goldman Sachs is using a loophole, how surprising.

What is your point, though? Should we not make laws that can potentially have loopholes?
The fuel has a much greater energy density than chemical rockets, making longer distances practical, and the process is safer than nuclear fission.
I'm almost certain this statement is incorrect.

1) Just because a price reverts to a previous value does not mean that no-one benefited or was hurt from the fact that it fell or increased in between.

2) The 'rolling back' of an HFT-prompted crash (the causal link being debatable anyway) is not guaranteed at all.
The Windows ecosystem reboot is bad news if you plan to move country
More wise would have been just to remove him from the jury during jury selection. Overturning a jury's decision is pretty rare.
Lets take your example and extended to two investors. One who wants to buy and one who wants to sell. If Bid is at $1.50 and Ask at $1.60 then in an efficient market you can expect the two investors to meet at the middle and make the trade at $1.55. That will not occur. Instead of trading with each other, both investors would trade with liquidity providers who will step in to buy from one investor at $1.51 and sell at $1.59. As a result the investors will get their orders filled at only $.01 better than the expected bid/ask and the HFT guy would make $.08 in pure profit.

In reality this does not occur. What happens is that another HFT guy would step in to offer $.02 to each investor in price improvement and take $.06 in spreads. The next HFT guy tries to shave off a little bit more until the spread narrows to $.01. HFT guys then try to take little bits of that remaining spread with exotic order types, rapidly putting and taking off orders, and other tricks and squeezing more money out becomes increasingly difficult.

Edit: To clarify as per dchichkov comment, because of the competition between HFTs guys, the investors would only see a spread of $.01 or $.02. Thus both would trade around somewhere around $1.55 though not necessarily with each other.
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Ya, also from experience :)
I heard about Lockitron via an email from a friend before I saw the article on HN. Perhaps the huge interest is due to the concept going viral?

Most of the techy articles I read on HN I wouldn't bother forwarding to my non-techy friends or family; this however I would share for the "Wow! The geeky future!" factor.